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*** August/September 2013 Challenge: Attack of the Blobs ***

The Lite Challenge for this month is one we've done before, but I thought it might be nice to re-visit. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take the image attached below and create a map out of it.

A few rules:

-The 'blob' image below MUST be a part of the map. It doesn't have to be the centerpiece, but it has to be visible.
-You can shrink or expand the image as you see fit, or rotate it, or even flip it horizontally or vertically, but you CANNOT rearrange the pieces of the 'blobs' in different ways.
-ALL pieces of the image must be visible; you cannot chop off a piece here and there.

That's it; have at it.

If you get stuck for inspiration, the last time we did one of these challenges, we had entrants that made standard island or continent maps; entries that reversed land and water and made a series of lakes; cavern systems; forests; and stellar nation maps.

IMPORTANT:

Precede each WIP image with the tag ### Latest WIP ###.

If the tag is not in place (and not typed correctly),
YOUR ENTRY WILL NOT BE PICKED UP BY THE THUMB SCRAPER AND WILL NOT BE VISIBLE WHEN IT'S TIME TO VOTE.